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"&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img alt=\"0211-rihanna-tmz\" src=\"http://ll-media.tmz.com/2014/02/11/0211-rihanna-tmz-3.jpg\" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Rihanna&lt;/strong&gt; says her accountant made so many boneheaded decisions that he blew her fortune and she was \"effectively bankrupt\" by the end of 2009.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The singer claims in new legal docs she had $11 MILLION in cash at the beginning of 2009.&amp;#160; Rihanna says the accountant was not on the ball and she was horrified to learn at the end of the year she had $2 million left. To make matters worse, her expenses doubled, which left her on a financial cliff.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;As for how Rihanna blew through $9 million in one year ... she says her accountant gave her the green light to buy a house priced between $7 and 7 1/2 million. So she took his advice. She ultimately sold the house for a $2 million LOSS.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;She also claims her 2009 tour -- Last Girl on Earth Tour -- was losing money but the accountant never gave her the heads up.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The legal docs were filed in connection &lt;a href=\"http://www.tmz.com/2012/08/13/rihanna-lawsuit-ex-accountants-fire-back/\"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;with a lawsuit Rihanna filed against her accountant&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, claiming gross mismanagement.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;BTW ... Rihanna has rebounded nicely.&amp;#160; Her net worth is now estimated at $43 mil.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a class=\"lightbox-link\" href=\"http://www.tmz.com/photos/2012/08/31/rihanna-sexy-hot-photos-pictures/\"&gt;&lt;img alt=\"0212_rihanna_through_years_footer\" src=\"http://ll-media.tmz.com/2014/02/12/0212-rihanna-through-years-footer-2.jpg\" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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